Although I'm Horde through and through, I am also a fan of Midwinter. I think they are a great representation of what a hardcore raiding guild should be (and so is Method).

Blood Legion is good, but I really dislike how they run their ship. It works for them, and I can respect that.

In any sense, don't count on Method facerolling Midwinter. Like was said earlier- there's much less luck factored in now versus the release race. And it won't come down to number of hours/pulls spent, but rather strategy perfection.

Re-introducing short term buffs after the player base took years to convince them it just was not fun is a pretty good indicator that the current development team is out of ideas and is just regurgitating the original teams development.

I can hardly wait for warlock drain tanking and hunter ammo, even better maybe a class should get 5 minute buffs they can give other raid members depending on their class.

I love the live raids, especially the races and I'm sure Blizzard will add in some interesting things like they have done before, Hogger wiping the raid, 10 bosses spawned at once etc.

Honestly, was more nerfs to LFR really needed? Maybe Garrosh for now, but Iron Jugg etc?

I'll be following Method, they are good at this, but Midwinter aren't exactly far behind or a pushover so, it will be interesting to watch, as races have shown in the past, one guild can be ahead 95% of the entire run, then boom, wipe, other team pulls ahead.

Can't wait for Blizzcon, is there a cut off date to buy a virtual ticket or is it just up until the first day?

I have never understood the fanboi mentality for the "hardcore" raiders in this game. For the most part, especially after you see how many attempts it takes some of these guilds, it's not a matter of how skilled they are at playing the game, rather how much time they have to sit in a dungeon for extended periods of time. Back in the day of MMOs, you couldn't slam your head against the raiding wall for 4 days straight because if you did, you deleveled, and then it was impossible to raid. I'm not trying to take anything away from these folks' accomplishments, I'm really not. But lets stop acting like it took skill and not copious amounts of time to make it where they are. Show me a guild that beats the new tier of raiding first, with no practicing on the PTR, AND they kill every boss within 10 attempts, and then we can talk. Till then......meh.